Mop-head



' H. MURCH- Mop Head.

Patented June 14, 1853.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

HARVEY MURCH, OF LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

MOP-HEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9,781, dated June 14,1853; Reissued June 2, 1868, Nos. 2,957 and 2,958.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY MURGH, of Lebanon, in the county of Graftonand State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Mop-Heads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings,-

making part of this specification, Figure 1 being a plan of a portion ofa mophandle with my improved mop-head attached; Fig. 2, an end view ofthe same, a portion being removed; and Fig. 3, a vertical centralsection thereof.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A metallic cross-head B, provided with a groove on one side 6, andaround the ends f, f, is fastened firmly to the mop handle A, by meansof a socket b, which fits over the end thereof. A movable binder 0,substantially of the form shown in the drawings, slides in the groovedends f, f, of the cross-head B, while its upper end, or shank, moves ina guide catch a, attached to the mop handle, and is provided with aseries of notches 0, 0, formed (as seen in Fig. 3) so as to allow thebinder to be drawn upward but not downward past said catch, againstwhich they are pressed by a spring (l, attached to the mop handlebeneath said shank of the binder. The lower end of the binder, whendrawn completely up, fits into the groove 6, of the cross head B; but,when pushed completely down, leaves a space between itself and saidcross-head suflicient to admit the mop, which being inserted therein,the binder is simply drawn upward, (the notches 0, c, preventing itsreturn,) till the mop is firmly clasped between said binder andcross-head. And when it is desired to remove the mop from the mop head,the upper end of the binder is to be pressed down against the spring cl,until the notches 0, c, are freed from the catch a; and then the binderis readily pushed down to set the mop free. This arrangement furnishes avery simple, cheap and easily managed means of fastening the mop in itshead.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

My improved mop-head, composed of the fixed cross-head B, which hasgrooves in its lower side and ends, in combination with the slidingbinder C, that terminates in a notched shank c, and passes through theloop a, on the handle A, which serves as a detent in consequence of theaction of the spring (Z, on the under side of the said shank,substantially as herein set forth.

The above specification of my improved mop-head, signed and witnessedthis 12th day of November, 1852.

HARVEY MURCH.

Witnesses:

AARON H. CRAGIN, GEO. S. TOWLE.

[FIRST PRINTED 1913.]

